Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1887-02-03
IN GENERAL.

Vhe Grace Hour mil ~ OIthhkot Ai.i
wps burned on Monday. Loss, $6o,VVO;
insurance, $22 900.
DR.. George A. Thayer, aged 80 years,
81. mayor Of Binghamton, N. T., dropped
dead there Monday.
Barnes Opera House, in LAmpasas,
Texas, was burned OH Sunday night
Loss $50, 600; insurance, $l6,OOO.
The inventory of the estate of che late
Charles Francis Adams shows property
LETT by him to the value Of 81 ,O26,OOO.
II is reported from Eastport, Me-, that
the Canadians are still fishing in American
waters, but there is no excitement In the
town. -,
Harry M. Getty, 81 years old, living Of
New York, on Monday night committed
suicide on his mothers grave, in the East
Moriches Cemetery.
For two days the temperature at 81.
Paul. Mimi, ranged from 20 to 35 below
zero, but Monday II moderated slightly
| and a snow storm set In.
William Galloway and his clerk, Mr.
Lease, were shot and fatally wounded by
burglars in Galloway's store, near Little
Rock, Ark, on Monday morning.
/ The case Of ex-Alderman ONeill,
charged with receiving bride, in New
York, was given to the jury Tuesday night,
and at IL. 10 p. m. a verdict of guilty was
rendered.
The Cincinnati San has suspended
publications caused by radical differences
Of opinion among the owners. There are
said to be no debts of magnitude and no
legal complications.
Bobby Adams, the Minneapolis, Mimi,
post. office lobber, was Monday at
Chicago sentenced to Ave years in the
penitentiary and fined $500 and one-sixth
the cost of his trial.
A fire at Mackinac Island, Mich, on
Sunday night destroyed two saloons, two
general stores, shop and the Carson and
!, Mackinae Houses, causing q loss OF
$50, 600. There is no insurance.
: The loss by the burning of the Chad
} wick bleachery in Newburg. N. Y, or
Monday night, is now estimated al
} $S5, 600. Joseph Tillotson, aged 81 years
. persisted in the burned building.
7 Counsel for James Titus, convicted Of
! the murder Of Tillie Smith, at Hacketts
: town, New Jersey, Monday applied Il
Q chancellor Runyon for a writ of error
? | The chancellor reserved his decision.
3 traction engine on the farm of Viii
liam G. Long, 16 miles from Frede rick
7 Md, burst Monday, killing John I2er
q dangerously injuring William d. Lonl
y and Milton Stitely, and burninga 80 ,OO
Q barn.
o Mrs. Nugent, aged So years was kille'
Q Monday while picking coal from tn
8 dirt bank of q eolliery at Shenandoah, Pa
; A lump Of coal rolled out of dump a
!. the top of the bank and struck her ON tn
o head.
70 The post-otfiee at Gainesville, Texas
IT was robbed on Monday morning of 3d. 90
8, in bills and q small amount of silver. Tn
', safe was old and easily broken open. Tw
1t of the robbers have been arrested, an
$400 of the money recovered.
sr Chemist White of Georgia decided thf
is the 10 tubs of butter shipped to August
by z. Moran j. Co. Of Chicago was oleC
ct margarine. The United States chemist
% at Washington decided that it was puI
% butter and Collector Crensbaw released i
At II was announced in Chicago Tuesda
of night that the condemned Anarchist Spit
and Nina Van Handt, who is infatuate
70 with him, had been married by prox,
o. The groom was represented by his brotht
and suburban justice of the peat
70 officiated.
le A private cablegram from Rome WI
ID received Monday in Woonsocket, Il.
d announcing the selection of the Re
"a Matthew Parkins, for II years pastor
g. st. James Church, Boston, to succeed Il
in late Bishop Hendricken Of the Proyident
a diocese
% Archbishop Elder, at Cincinnati
ne authorizes the statement that the Cathol
ts church is in no way responsible for II
We organization OF theatrical company
30 gather money to aid in paying the Pu
er cell debt, nor does he in any mann
OF sanction such scheme.
q; The supreme court of Missouri Mo
lu day granted q stay of execution un
us April LIST next to II. M. Brooks, alias y
ne Ii. Il. Maxwell and the Chinese hig
re binders, pending an appeal for n,
trial. The execution was to have TAX
place next Thursday.
DIR. Mott Alexander committed suici
"a Tuesday at Knoxville, Tenn, by TAXI
:, morphine. He was one of the leadi
physicians, but no hId recently Deen d
a "a sipated. lie left note saying II
~ with malice toward none, | 40 to he
~ Tell my son to go to Heaven"
~ ~ Charles Talbot, 10 years of age, MIG
l ~ clerk in tho Gsyyqsp- Hetel u =! MNle,.spI
,.S iaH 70 disappeared tuesday mo
IA ng $50, 900 Of diamonds beionei
IA 10 Miss Fanny Davenport, which b
'H nf been given to him for safe keeping.
a also took $500 in cash belonging to |
~ hotel
1os In the police court at Cincinnati Tu
~ ~ day morning, 1l5 men were arraiRned
II aiding and abetting a cock fight. Fo
,sn OF them pleaded guilty, and were fir
"a each S25 and costs, making an 0,
,,L 81 600 to go into the school fund. So
sre of the others gave bail but many Of tn
csc were locked up, being unable to /